The Journey to Redemption

Newark police reported Wednesday that John P. Wheeler III was spotted at 8:30 p.m. Dec. 30 as he wandered through a DuPont Co. building, apparently confused and disoriented — filling in five more hours leading up to the discovery of his body in a Wilmington landfill. The former Pentagon official's body was found about 13 hours later, on New Year's Eve , lying in refuse at Wilmington's Cherry Island Landfill. Law enforcement officials also confirmed Wednesday they are looking into a Dec. 28 smoke bomb incident at a New Castle home that had been the focus of several lawsuits filed by the 66-year-old Wheeler. The home, which is under construction, is directly across the street from Wheeler's house, blocking his view of the Delaware River. Wheeler contended in a long-running legal dispute the home violates the historic town's zoning codes. FINAL DAYS: Ex-Pentagon official appeared disheveled State fire officials reported that several low-powered devices — ...

  An increasing clamour to restrict and control the internet on behalf of the government, the Pentagon , the intelligence community and their private corporate arms, could result in a staged cyber attack being used as justification.   Over recent months we have seen a great increase in media coverage of inflated fears over a possible “electronic Pearl Harbor” event, with reports claiming that the U.S. could be “felled within 15 minutes” . Vastly over-hyped (and in some cases completely asinine) claims that the power grids and other key infrastructure such as rail networks and water sources are wired up to the public internet have permeated such coverage.   Threats against computer networks in the United States are grossly exaggerated. Dire reports issued by the Defense Science Board and the Center for Strategic and International Studies “are usually richer in vivid metaphor — with fears of ‘digital Pearl Harbors’ and ‘cyber-Katrinas’ — than in factual foun...

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